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Tektronix - GNURadio Demonstration System
No full textThe demonstration system showcases the broad capabilities of Tektronix’s Real-Time RF Spectrum Analyzers (RSA). Utilizing an open-source, signal processing software toolkit, GNURadio, the demonstration system promotes application development on the RSA system.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1090/thumbnail.jp
Heart Valve Testing Device
No full textArtificial heart valves provide relief for a growing subset of the population that suffers from heart disease. Artificial valves may fail in certain fluid flow conditions that contribute to cavitation. This team designed and prototyped a benchtop testing device that is capable of visualizing fluid flow and cavitation through artifical heart valves.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1086/thumbnail.jp
Agile Literature Review
Get PDFBackground: Over the last 20 years the software development community has implemented agile techniques over the traditional approach to software development. Agile methods require less upfront costs and increase project flexibility; however, agile methodology is not infallible. Objective: This research seeks to validate the assumption that there is a lack of robust research regarding agile project management and its use in the software development industry. This extensive review of existing literature on the topic will serve as a basis for new research on areas with existing ambiguity. Method: The search engines used to identify relevant literature from 1987 to 2021 on the topic were Business Source Premier and Google Scholar. The procedure used to narrow the search queries was the use of deliberate keywords and phrases such as “agile software development” and “cost of requirement errors”. All results were cross-referenced on both search engines to validate the accuracy of each source. Results: 76 papers containing relevant information to agile project management within the software community have been identified: 55 academic journals, 1 book, 1 conference paper, 1 magazine article, 7 periodicals, 10 professional journals, and 1 textbook. 35 papers are critical of Agile methodology, 16 focus mostly on its strengths, 12 focus mainly on its weaknesses, and 13 contain relevant information regarding the cost of requirement errors
Christian Forgiveness as Incarnational: Turning to the Black Existential Experience in an Era of Hate
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Clark Library Annual Report 2020-2021
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It’s a Touchy Subject: How Connection is (Re)Imagined in a Global Pandemic
Get PDFThe Coronavirus pandemic presents a unique and unavoidable context to study haptic communication because of the ways that individuals have adapted to this new reality and how haptic, or touch, behaviors pose health and safety concerns. Touch has major benefits that influence individuals in physiological and psychological ways (e.g. increased self-value and relationship quality) that are felt both immediately and well into their future. At a time when touch seems most needed yet discouraged, there is concern that the lack of touch will cause both physiological and psychological impairments as the literature shows. This makes this time, specifically, a crucial moment and calls us to expand haptic communication research on the effects of the lack of touch and its influence on an individual’s well-being and communicative ability. Therefore, guided by the discouraged nature and new hypersensitivity of touch, this study aims to establish an understanding of the ways touch has changed within a novel context, learn how individuals are fulfilling their need for connection, and interpret how they have been navigating the “lack of touch” reality of a global pandemic. Results showed that the use of touch had experienced significant change based on a new negative perception of the form of communication, heightened awareness of comfortability and interaction partners, and spurred the development of both successful and unsuccessful compensating connective behaviors
Familiarity
No full textTwo outstretched hands grasp for a teapot, water is suspended and orange carnations lay to the sides of the hands. This piece touches on the experience of living far away from home, reaching for familiarity whenever possible.
Medium: Acrylic paint on canvashttps://pilotscholars.up.edu/quinn_soleia_exhibit/1009/thumbnail.jp
Electronic health record integration: Reducing documentation burden through electronic screening and registration
Get PDFDeveloping Student Affairs Practitioner Competency in Assessment, Evaluation, and Research: Improving the Classroom Experience
Get PDFThis mixed methods explanatory sequential design study explored how classroom experiences in a student affairs assessment, evaluation, and research (AER) course impacted student competency development in AER. Three research questions were addressed: Does graduate students’ perceived AER competency change from pre- to post-course? Are changes in graduate students’ perceived AER competency from pre- to post-course impacted by other variables? How do classroom experiences in a student affairs AER class impact graduate students’ perceived development of competency across the three components of AER (assessment, evaluation, and research)?
Participants were graduate students enrolled in a master’s level student affairs AER course during the fall 2020 semester (n = 43). Data were collected across three phases through pre- and post-course surveys, written reflections, and semi-structured interviews. Before the course started (phase one), students completed a pre-course survey to measure perceived AER competency across three factors (research skills, research values, and research behaviors) using the National Survey of Student Affairs Professionals (NSSAP; Sriram, 2014). At mid-semester (phase two), students completed written reflections about their course experience. At the endpoint of the semester (phase three), students completed a post-course survey on perceived AER competency and written reflections on their course experience. A purposeful sample of participants completed semi-structured interviews (n = 11). Perceived competency data were analyzed using statistical analyses, while written reflections and interview data were analyzed for themes using Saldaña’s (2015) two cycle coding method.
Results from statistical analyses of pre- and post-course survey data showed significant increases in students’ mean perceived research skills and research behaviors. Students’ mean perceived pre-course research skills were significantly higher for those who had taken one or more AER courses previously; perceived post-course research behaviors were significantly lower for those who had taken zero AER courses previously. Perceived research skills, values, and behaviors did not differ significantly by work experience in higher education. Results of qualitative analyses suggest that student learning in the AER classroom is impacted in four main ways: through course components, engaging in research practices, talking and thinking through processes, and support. The results of this study have implications for AER course instructors and for AER course syllabus, curriculum, and program development